Michael Abbott reports:
''I've been following the hostility and vituperation flying around various websites and message boards over CliffyB's description of MGS4 as "passive entertainment on its way out." The fanboy flame wars burn bright as the online battle is pitched between fans of CliffyB (Western, action-driven, "web 2.0 stuff") vs. fans of Kojima (Japanese, story-driven, old-school stealth and espionage).
How hot can these fights get? To what lengths will devoted fans go to defend the integrity of their entertainment idols? Could two opposing groups of fans actually come to blows over what are essentially artistic differences?''
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
Cliffy B is a smack, hack, jerk spurt butt dong and Kojima is not. Case closed.
Kojima is on whole another level than this guy is right now or will ever be.
If any developer talks smack about awesome game franchises they are jealous with a fad waiting to happen. Just want attention.
Cliffy's fad will pass. He will be humbled one of these days. When the smoke clears, Kojima will still be making awesome games with sophistication.
This excerpt only sets the table for the real gist of the article.
They are both great games, but their greatness lies with their differences. Probably a poor choice of words on Cliff's side, but it's his opinion and he's entitled to it.
cliffyb should just shut the h#ll up. his company produced the unreal engine. he didn't have to do it.
kojima is on a much higher level than cliff. what cliffy doesn't realize is that there are mindless,storyless shooters all over the place. cliffy should be in the pr dept. at epic. he's good at trying to sell his games with curse words and hyperbole.(if i hear "bigger,badder and more badass" one more time i'm going to throw up)
it's too bad cliffys games can't do his talking for him. then he wouldn't have to insult other devs and swear constantly to get attention.